The Attorney General’s Office Frankfurt am Main is in a large-scale crackdown on buyers of monitoring software “DroidJack” for Android smartphones proceed.
Police officers searched the homes of 13 suspects in Hesse, Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Bremen, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. Also in four other European countries objects were searched.
The buyers of the sniffer software “DroidJack” accused the banned spying on data and computer fraud, as the Attorney General’s Office announced.
declared Prosecutors, “DroidJack” was not a legal tool with which, for example, IT companies could make security tests. Since the program was intended solely to commit criminal acts. “The malicious software among other traffic monitored telephone conversations and ambient conversations can bugged secretly and surreptitiously image recordings are made with the smartphone’s camera.”
In addition, could initiated by the infected machine calls and SMS sent consulted data and and changed the location of the smartphone to be localized. The malicious software is in particular the so-called “phishing” in online banking is of considerable importance, dam one can Fishing out her mobile TANs of banks.
The Android smartphones are among other things, manipulated apps, about a game that has been infected. The malicious software is designed so that it can be discovered by savvy smartphone users not readily available.
The suspects in Germany 19-51 years of age to buy on the Internet since 2014 “DroidJack” and who then used. I, the provider of the software on the network is not open to recognize and probably sitting in India, said Attorney General Alexander Badle Deutsche Presse-Agentur. From investigation for tactical reasons he did not say how the investigators came to the list of buyers of “DroidJack”. In addition to the searches in Germany there were also raids in Britain, France, Belgium and Switzerland.
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